Modern Architecture – there are some buildings and even cities out there that look like a set for a science – fiction movie. I find architecture in its designs – vision and use of materials being remarkably ahead of our times. Ok – we’ve got those intimidating digital, mechanical and scientific innovations but we still live in a brick/concrete box-like environment (and we’ll be living like this for decades and centuries – unless somebody will hang all the “developers” who transform our area into a “posh-y” but nasty concentration camps of identical houses). So there are some ingenious structures – they don’t have a cosy feeling but have power to inspire:

Outsider Art – called also rough, raw, brute, intuitive, extraordinary, visionary – all art created outside the art establishment (art institutions and societies). Too often marginalised and reduced to work produced in mental asylums and by mentally tormented people. It embraces also different sorts of primitive/naive or folk art, graffiti or… art produced by children. I met with a sort of inattention while mentioning this kind of influence in my college but for me the raw art is probably the only honestly motivated art created today. It’s got freshness and originality, purity and freedom often unattainable for the proper art. Maybe it’s because the brute artist doesn’t really care (or – does he?) about the whole net of ridiculous phenomena like reception, fame, money, concepts, sponsors, exhibitions etc. etc.

Kate Bush – music and video work. Her Cloudbusting is especially compelling – it’s thoughtfully irrational, and wisely emotional . I just keep on listening/watching:

Photography – I simply adore images by Magnum photographers. These images have the Catharsis quality (in an original Aristotle’s meaning – as a spiritual purification by experience of pity and awe – because human drama we watch makes us more conscious of our own human condition; because it could happen to us too) :

Terra Incognita

Life is 'Terra Incognita' and so is Art. Ever-changing event emerging from endless possibilities. For some it's a business, a way to money and fame, for others - an inescapable gravitas of becoming - a creation of a new world.
This site features mainly its author's articles on Art History and Theory. It's got an ambition to promote an alternative view on artist's life here and now. Artist as a practical philosopher applying his knowledge through visual expression. Evoking clarity through mastering chaos and being a midwife of emotion.